Sessions

There are a range of sessions that have been confirmed for inclusion in Stimulus 2018. Session names may change as we get closer to the conference.

45 MINUTE SESSIONS

  • Alcohol Harm Reduction Panel
  • Beyond the Overdose Prevention Room: grassroots community responses to overdose in Victoria BC
  • Child Welfare Panel
  • Drug Checking Duo
  • Grief and Loss Duo
  • How Lessons learned helped the Downtown Eastside fight the Opioid Epidemic
  • Indigenous-centred approaches to hepatitis C community programming and harm reduction
  • International Duo
    • You Say You Want a Resolution: Implementing a Ground-Breaking Canadian Resolution at the UN by Developing an Advocacy Agenda to Challenge Stigma Against People who Use Drugs Domestically and Globally
    • International Guidelines on Drug Policy and Human Rights: Developing Needed Normative Guidance for Governments and a Tool for Advocates
  • Learning from Overdose Prevention Services (OPS): A Panel Discussion and Skills Share
  • MS
  • National Day of Action organizing in your community! Conversation Café
  • New Drug Duo
  • Opioid Treatment Panel
  • Pharmacy Panel
  • Policing the overdose crisis: the impact of law enforcement mechanisms on Overdose Prevention Site utilization in Vancouver, Canada
  • Psychedelic Science: Research, Practice & Policy ImplicationsReducing Harms for Students: Implementing Harm Reduction at the University of Calgary
  • Residential Panel
  • Rural Panel
    • Remote Control: Implementing Community Based HIV/AIDS Research in Northern, First Nation and Rural Manitoba Communities
    • Rural Voices
    • L’intervention féministe intersectionnelle et l’inclusion des femmes utilisatrices de substances psychoactives dans les ressources en contexte de milieu de vie
  • Stigma, as it relates to Peer Support workers with people who use drugs
  • Street College-A community development response to Crisis
  • Surviving Overdose: Example of a Community Circle for workers and service users who experienced multiple/ongoing overdoses
  • Tech Panel
  • The “Crackhouse”: A Pillar of Our Communities – La “Piaule”: Un pillier de nos communautés
  • The Halifax Area Network of Drug Using People (HANDUP) present: “A Halifax perspective on stigma and discrimination”
  • The War on Drugs IS a war on the poor
  • Understanding EIDGE – A peer-led research project regarding non-beverage alcohol use in Vancouver’s DTES
  • Using Trauma and Violence-Informed Care (TVIC) to Reduce Substance Use, Sexuality and STBBI Related Stigma
  • What can mothers’ stories do? Story-telling, lived experience, and advocacy for drug policy change
  • Who are the drug checkers? Can’t forget about the peers…

90 MINUTE SESSIONS

  • Integrating Frontline Harm Reduction Services to Respond to the Opioid Overdose Crisis and Beyond
  • Lived Experience Panel
  • Measuring Success and Failure of Policy Panel
  • Nightlife Panel
  • Right Now! Heroin-Assisted Treatment

LIGHTNING ROUND SESSIONS

  • CCENDU: A sentinel network for early warning and surveillance of substance use trends in Canada
  • Choice Matters: an investigation and discussion of needle gauge preference among people who inject drugs
  • Co-creating Evidence: National Evaluation of Multi-service Programs Reaching Pregnant Women at Risk
  • Government sanctioned, community defined: A local case study of BC overdose prevention sites
  • Implementation of Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy in a Primary Care Integrated Care Health Centre
  • Improving hospital admission for people who use drugs – adapting a tool to improve care
  • Person –centered care in injectable opioid agonist treatment
  • Seeing the trees but not the forest: Trends in Canadian News Media Coverage of Harm Reduction (2000-2016)
  • Stimulant use among patients receiving injectable opioid agonist treatment in Vancouver
  • The Benefits and Challenges of the Peer-Research Model
  • The perfect storm: A poisoned drug supply and Vancouver’s housing crisis combine to enhance risk for assertive community treatment (ACT) clients
  • What is the state of the science on supervising non-injection forms of drug consumption?
  • Women and drug use: an experience of a rural community

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

  • An Integrative Review of Treatment Recommendations for First-Episode Psychosis with Concurrent Cannabis-Use
  • Calgarians Who Use Drugs Have a Voice, Let’s Listen
  • Connection of PWUD at Supervised Consumption Services to Pathways of Care – Are We Meeting the Needs of Crystal Methamphetamine Users?
  • Connections Between Harm Reduction and Recovery; A Discussion of How We Can Create Community During a Crisis
  • Design and Implementation of an Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment Program in Calgary
  • Is there community support for the implementation of additional harm reduction services in Nova Scotia? The perspectives of people who use drugs and local stakeholders
  • Harm Reduction in Saskatoon: Strategies for Safer Injection Drug Consumption
  • Lighting the Way with Knowledge Visualization: Visualizing the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey
  • Narrative Review: Cannabis as a treatment for PTSD: Effects and effectiveness
  • Pitcher and the Crow: A Collaborative Art Project with Women Living with / Affected by HIV in Ontario
  • ResPire Diversidade: A Harm Reduction experience with LGBT population in São Paulo, Brazil
  • ResPire Redução de Danos: Drug checking scenario at brazilian festivals
  • ‘Re-wounding Practices’: Exploring the perspectives of Obstetrical nurses’ working with pregnant women who use illicit substances
  • The importance on drug policy advocacy amidst a politically unstable moment of a nation
  • The Winding Journey to Excellence: Sharing the successes and challenges encountered in the development and opening of an inpatient adolescent concurrent disorder program